[fpc-devel] bug report 20473: Please add a directive to define string=utf8string

[Michael Schnell]

On 10/13/2011 10:39 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
>
> When installing you can always select a custom directory though you 
> can not change the version-id. E.g. you could install to 
> "/lib/fpc-cpstring/2.7.1".
Of course I do know how to install FPC in another directory or how to 
preserve the current installation by other means. I just wanted to 
suggest that changing the version ID could help to avoid nasty hazards, 
as you need to manually change the link in /usr/bin to activate a 
modified version, plus the old version is automatically preserved while 
installing a version with a new ID (on Linux).

> Also as far as I see the version of the PPU files is different (though 
> not because of the string changes) between your version and current 
> trunk, so Lazarus should trigger recompilations if you switch between 
> your older 2.7.1 and a current one.

Yep, but AFAIK, currently Lazarus can't be compiled with the trunk 
version and recompiling a user project with same (which forces 
recompiling the LCL as you state) does not work either.

-Michael